Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 1124 amends the Health and Safety Code to require the executive committee for the Center for Rural Health Initiatives to establish a community healthcare awareness and mentoring program to identify high school students interested in serving as health care professionals in rural and underserved urban areas. The bill requires that the program identify health care professionals to mentor the students, introduce the students to professional health care careers through certain activities, encourage the students, and provide continuing community-based support for students attending training or educational programs to become health care professionals. The bill also requires the center to establish and maintain an updated medical resource library containing information on medical careers, and it requires the development of a grant program to support employment opportunities in rural and underserved urban areas in the state.